Advanced Coach Training – Processes for Personal and Professional Transformation.

NLP School are proud to present Advanced Coach training – Processes for Personal and Professional Transformation given by Robbie Steinhouse.

This three-day course is to help people achieve a personal transformation, so they can lead happier and more productive lives. It is open to people who have already undertaken some personal development training, as well as coaches and professional change workers.

Robbie Steinhouse explains how this course is special.

The following question is common amongst our course participants and was also a real issue for me:

“As the success in my career develops, I am finding the demands on me are becoming increasingly difficult. I feel stressed and worry that if this continues, it will not be sustainable.”

Twenty years ago, my own story was that of a successful entrepreneur finding it very hard to balance success and happiness – the so called ‘work life balance’ eluded me. I began an insatiable journey to find the answer: I took numerous courses from 7 Habits, NLP, TA, Yoga, meditation retreats, the Hoffman Process and received various kinds of therapy.
Whilst being beneficial, none of this completely worked for me and I still felt an inner anxiety that never went away, whatever I did or achieved. Until, in 2001, whilst sitting around a pool on holiday, I suddenly had a spontaneous healing moment that transformed my life. I developed this into a change process and began teaching Rescripting in 2002; since that time, I have seen transformations of people who have attended my courses around the world.

Advanced Coaching is built around this technique. It also presents tools and models for discovering your life purpose and values, along with methods to help support people grow into leaders. Although I have always had a bit of a problem with the word ‘leadership’, I can’t think of a better word – we all need to lead our life; if we can find tools to make us happy and successful, as well as those we care for and make a positive difference in the world, then great, but how?

I believe that change is both incremental and revolutionary. Advanced coaching provides the tools and methods to provide lasting change. It also provides a lasting tool kit for you to dip into, whenever future challenges appear so you can become your own coach and transition out of future problems you may face.

Many busy people will say that three days is too long to take out of their schedule. All I can say, is that my time around that swimming pool enabled me to achieve far more than I possibly imagined – but what I value as my greatest achievement is that I have a sense of inner peace.

A little more about Robbie

Robbie Steinhouse is the chairman of Gray’s Inn Group, the company he founded 30 years ago, and the founder and Director of NLP School, his experience in both running his own successful businesses and presenting leadership programmes worldwide has now led to a new model, The Leadership Matrix, which is the basis of his latest book Mindful Business Leadership published by Routledge. He has identified 9 core characteristics, or archetypes, building on the 3rd Generation work of Robert Dilts and Stephen Gilligan. This matrix is one of the first of its kind and is taught in detail on the course.

This is an advanced course and is open to people who have completed Coach Training with NLP, TA and Mindfulness or who have had other relevant training.

It is presented by its founder: international trainer, coach and author Robbie Steinhouse. Go here to read Robbie’s latest blog.

NLP School founder Robbie Steinhouse began his personal development journey as a successful but stressed entrepreneur asking “I’ve done so well, why do I feel so bad”? He studied various personal development tools – coaching, NLP, Transactional Analysis, ‘7 Habits’ and meditation / mindfulness – to a level where he ended up teaching them. However, none of them on their own seemed to provide what he needed. He began to develop his own Transactional Analysis model, drawing on what he felt were the most helpful insights from each. This model forms the heart of this programme.

Robbie was one of the first group of NLP University Certified Master Trainers and is now part of their international teaching team.

He is also a highly experienced ICF Certified Coach and has been presenting personal development, NLP and leadership seminars around the world for the last 14 years. He has published five books, which have been translated into various languages including Chinese, Spanish, Arabic and Polish. Part of this programme is based on his latest book, Mindful Business Leadership published by Routledge.

A: The course teaches coaches to help their clients live happier and more fulfilling lives. You also learn how to apply the techniques to yourself. See our testimonials.

Q: How does it work and will it last?

A: Essentially, the course is about unearthing deep, destructive patterns of thought – life-plans, self-images, feeling a victim – and changing them. We all create these patterns in childhood, not just as passive recipients, but as bright, active but ill-informed beings eager to make sense of life. They then get stored beyond conscious awareness, where they exercise a malign influence, but remain (it seems) untouchable – at least partially because alongside the damage they cause, they continue to deliver some benefit, however minor. The work we do in this course is all about getting to them and working with them to bring about lasting change. Participants are allowed to fully honour their past and to bring forward all the benefits, especially protection, that the old thought-patterns provided. Just ditching an old self – or old selves – is never enough: the course enables you to develop a new identity that makes sense of the old but transcend it. That way, the change is lasting.

Q: How is it different from other personal development methods?

A: The traditional worlds of philosophy and spirituality link wisdom to core human values but ignore the psychology of how we can sabotage this link with unconscious ‘trigger’ responses. Psychology, in turn, is good at building models that show how things can go wrong, but often fails to create processes that actually deliver change: it is more a set of observations than a tool for living. Modern therapeutic techniques, including hypnosis and NLP, have created numerous change processes, yet lack an effective structure to make them work together coherently – you are given a set of tools but little advice on how best to use them. Coaching comes closest to the ideal, but can lack the depth to bring about lasting change: client-driven, it can allow people to skirt round the toughest issues.

By combining the best of these four disciplines – philosophy’s stress on core values, the clarity of psychological understanding, the power of therapeutic tools and the positivity and respectfulness of coaching – and adding to them a structure and a led journey, Leadership Coaching Skills delivers lasting change.

Prerequisites:
We want to make sure every delegate gets the best from this course. Delegates must either have completed our Coach Training with NLP, TA and Mindfulness course, or have had other equivalent training. If you have not been on our previous course, and wish to do these three days as a stand-alone, please provide Caroline with details of previous NLP, coaching or therapy study.

Accreditations

This course offers a total of 19.5 CCE and resource development units with the ICF and 18 hours professional development with the CPD standards office

‘Insightful, exciting and transformational on many levels. Steinhouse’s Leadership Matrix takes us on an extraordinary journey to help unlock true leadership potential.’

Eva Hamilton MBE
Founder & CEO
Key4life

‘Robbie Steinhouse is a rare breed: a leadership expert who actually is an experienced business leader.’

Steinhouse is a highly successful entrepreneur & business leader. He is also a world authority on NLP. In this book he combines real-world business know-how with deep insight into what makes business leaders tick. The result is an important book for anyone who wants to do better at building and leading a business.

Mindful Business Leadership clearly explains the ten elements of leadership in the Leadership Matrix model. It describes instantly recognisable archetypes and their shadows, and explores how these archetypes can be used to develop a more flexible and effective leadership style. The second half of the book provides detailed practical exercises and guides about how to apply the Leadership Matrix personally to become a more successful and engaging leader.

Steinhouse is expert at taking complex ideas and presenting them in a clear and accessible way, without diminishing their power. With personal anecdotes, wide-ranging references, meticulous research and its author’s mastery of psychology, Mindful Business Leadership is a rich new resource that will help anyone who wants to improve their leadership in business and beyond.’

“I had no idea what the Process was but I was happy to explore, without knowing that it would change me from that day onwards. With an engineering degree, an MBA, 21 years of corporate life in IT consulting and HR, plus 10 years experience as an entrepreneur, having lived in 8 cities in 5 countries, I did not think that someone could change the way I think of myself. But I experienced such change in the Process. The image of myself and my life I created has been with me from that day onwards.

“8 weeks later our class met again and I got consistent feedback from my classmates and Robbie, that I looked much happier with a changed spirit. I felt this inside, and they all witnessed it from the outside.

“Robbie’s teaching led me on a path of self-discovery to realize many gifts of life in my past journey with positive surprises. With these gifts, I feel equipped with the necessary resources within myself to embrace whatever life offers in my journey forward.”

Absolutely loved the NLP training last week – I learnt skills to use in all walks of life with any age group – so positive for anybody to learn. It also gave me real skills which will help me in the future with my career change.

- Heitor Fox

The training has shed light on, and enabled me to reassess habits and patterns of behaviour.